Olive Pesto

It seems to me that people either have a love or hate relationship with olives. Me, on the other hand, I was a hater-lover. What’s that? Well, I used to hate olives because I thought they were gross looking — like why would I want a little black round thing on my food? And then my brain came to a realization that I should probably try it before I actually hated it. Yeah, total judging a book by its cover moment. Anyway, so now I’m a lover of olives. Any kind. Whether it be straight out of a can, stuffed, in a martini (oh, especially in a martini), on a pizza, in a pesto…oh hey….you see what I did there?

I was approached by Lindsay Olives a couple months ago to work on a photography project for them. To be honest, I’ve never heard of Lindsay Olives until two months ago. We don’t have them here, or at least I’ve never seen them at any grocery store here. I immediately jumped at the opportunity to work with them because I LOVE olives and the fact that I could make a recipe with their olives, was more than enough to convince me to jump on board! I also wanted to try their olives since we don’t have them here and from what I’ve heard from other food bloggers, their olives are definitely really good! Now I can totally vouch for that! Oh, and another great plus to olives that I read: they’re gluten-free!

I made their California Ripe Olive Pesto and for something so easy, it was SO jam-packed with flavor. It was out of this world! I kept dipping pita chip after pita chip. It was addicting, I couldn’t stop! I could smother this all over my face and call it a rejuvenating mask too ;)

This pesto was made with Lindsay Olive’s California black ripe pitted olives, which is their most popular and easiest to find. Definitely give this a try for a party or a light snack. All you gotta do is pretty much throw everything in a food processor and let ‘er rip! Done in about 5 minutes! What more could you ask for? Oh, right, hand me another bag of pita chips, please..

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I can’t fathom hating olives, lover all the way over here! I used to stick them on each of my fingers as a kid at holidays (because there was always a bowl of them out for appetizers) and eat them individually off each finger. Making a pesto with them…genius :)

I’m like a weird olive-lover. I can’t eat them by itself or in a martini but I love them in pizzas and pasta dishes. I think if it’s mixed in with a bunch of stuff, I’ll love it, so I’m sure I’ll love this pesto. After all, I love every kind of pesto so there’s no doubt about this one!

I also used to hate olives for a long time. My mom would always open up a can of olives to have with cheese and crackers before a party and I couldn’t stand them. Since then I’ve totally come around on fancy olives. With meyer lemon and garlic? stuffed with feta cheese? yes please, all around.